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1. Personification: attaching human traits to inanimate objects or animals 

2. Metaphor: comparison not using like or as

3. Simile: comparison using like or as

4. Onomatopoeia: a word which imitates the sound which it refers to

5. Alliteration: words having the same first consonant sound occurring close together

6. Pun: a word is used to suggest two or more possible meanings

7. Allusion: brief, indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of political, historical, literary, or cultural significance

8. Hyperbole: over-exaggeration for effect

9. Apostrophe: addressing someone that is not present, an inanimate object, or an abstract idea

10. Allegory: a story with two levels of meaning

11. Soliloquy - a monologue given by a character where their innermost thoughts are revealed

12. Irony: at its most basic level, when the opposite of what you expect to happen, happens

13. Theme: main idea of underlying meaning of a literary work

14. Point of view: the mode of narration the author employs to let the readers experience the story (comes in first, I; second, you; third, he she they.

15. Plot: the events which come together to make up the main story

16. Setting: the environment, time, place, in which the story takes place

17. Characterization: creation or construction of a fictional character (direct/indirect)

18. Symbol: usually a material object representing something abstract

19. Tone: the attitude of a speaker towards his subject

20. Conflict: a struggle involving two opposing forces (man vs. self, man vs. man, man vs. nature, etc.)

21. Analogy: a comparison in which an idea or thing is compared to another

22. Idiom: a set expression or phrase comprising of two or more words.

23. Imagery: uses figurative language to appeal to our sense

24. Protagonist: the central character/leading figure